NYC bans TikTok from all government devices
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on Wednesday banned TikTok from all government devices, and ordered all city employees to delete the app from their work phones within 30...
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Experts say there’s a balance to strike in the academic world when using generative AI—it could make the writing process more efficient and help researchers more clearly convey their findings....
Secret iPhone hacks will help you text faster than ever before
For blue bubble texters only! More than 120 million people in the United States are texting on iPhones, according to Statista. But after 16 years of updates many users are...
Booksellers, authors demand FTC monopoly probe of Amazon
US booksellers and authors urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopolistic grip over the industry on Wednesday — even as the e-commerce giant already faces a looming...
X throttling Facebook, news sites criticized by Elon Musk: report
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has been slowing the speeds with which users can access links to rivals and news sites that have come under criticism...
The World Isn’t Ready for the Next Decade of AI
Gideon Lichfield: If I were a cynic, which of course I’m not at all … Mustafa Suleyman: [Chuckle] Not at all. Lauren Goode: Not Gideon. Gideon Lichfield: I might say...
Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines
In a near-future war—one that might begin tomorrow, for all we know—a soldier takes up a shooting position on an empty rooftop. His unit has been fighting through the city...
Elon Musk studied Napoleon’s leadership style: Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk has studied the life of Napoleon Bonaparte for leadership inspiration, according to biographer Walter Isaacson. The billionaire “likes military history” and “believes there are lessons that apply to...
Tesla launches cheaper Model S, X versions with shorter driving ranges
Tesla launched cheaper variants of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV with shorter driving ranges in the US, looking to increase sales as high borrowing costs hamper demand...
STUDY: Socially aware temporally causal decoder recommender systems
Posted by Eltayeb Ahmed, Research Engineer, and Subhrajit Roy, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Reading has many benefits for young students, such as better linguistic and life skills, and reading...
Caroline Ellison was recorded blaming Sam Bankman-Fried for FTX collapse
Caroline Ellison, the former girlfriend of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was secretly recorded as she blamed her ex for a fateful decision to use customer funds to plug financial...
Pornhub’s new owner Alexzandra Kekesi promotes female exec in bid for respectability
Pornhub’s new owners are angling to make the notorious smut site more respectable to the mainstream public – and recently appointed a female executive to lead the battle, The Post...
AI models are powerful, but are they biologically plausible?
Artificial neural networks, ubiquitous machine-learning models that can be trained to complete many tasks, are so called because their architecture is inspired by the way biological neurons process information in...
AI can steal passwords with 95% accuracy by ‘listening’ to keystrokes, alarming study finds
Hackers could use artificial intelligence tools to steal user passwords with near-perfect accuracy by “listening” to an unsuspecting person’s keystrokes, according to alarming results of a study published earlier this...
Amazon Pharmacy to offer insulin, diabetes drugs for as little as $35 a month
Amazon said Tuesday its online pharmacy will automatically apply manufacturer-sponsored coupons to more than 15 insulin and diabetes medicines to help patients access discounts pledged by the drug industry. With the new program,...
